Integrating diverse IT areas: bridging the gap between multimedia kiosks and the wireless world

Author

Kurkovsky, Stan ; Bhagyavati ; Shah, Manish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbus State Univ., GA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

28 June-1 July 2004

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

38

Abstract

This paper presents a student research effort of developing a multimedia kiosk and extending its functionality to wireless mobile devices. Kiosk engine (KE) implements a framework for creating and presenting interactive multimedia kiosks. KE is implemented in Java and it can be used to present the kiosk content on both a stationary kiosk and a wireless device. This project brings together many areas of computer science: data representation, object-oriented software design and development, wireless applications, and multimedia. We believe that integrating such diverse areas within a single project offers tremendous benefits to the learning experience of students.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; interactive systems; mobile computing; multimedia computing; multimedia servers; object-oriented programming; IT integration; Java; UML; XML; data representation; information technology; interactive multimedia; kiosk engine; multimedia kiosk; object-oriented software; student learning; wireless mobile devices; wireless technology; Application software; Computer science; Educational institutions; Engines; Java; Mobile computing; Modems; Programming; Software design; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Research and Education, 2004. ITRE 2004. 2nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8625-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITRE.2004.1393641

Filename

1393641